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Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: hairyfigment 22 August 2015 06:06:22PM *  1 point [-]

The captcha seems like a terrible solution when we have someone following Penn Jillette's advice for stage magicians:

Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest.

You're effectively suggesting we put up a fence (to use Moody's example) in order to show him we disapprove of what he's doing. He already knows that.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 24 August 2015 11:16:08AM 0 points [-]

Well, at least a captcha would prevent people from using scripts to downvote each other's comments, but I don't think VoiceOfRa is doing that now (though he probably was when going by Eugene Nier). But yes, blocking people altogether from casting too many downvotes would probably make more sense.